Quote Originally Posted by rghy2 View Post
Lol, I'm definitely that player that got excited over any little freeroll win, and now I get really excited about my $30 wins. But just a few weeks before black friday I really started understanding how important BRM is to being a consistently winning player. For me personally, following BRM is the only way to tell if I'm truly a winning player. I also decided that I would pull off 10% of whatever I won and use that as motivation to improve enough to at least have a 10% ROI to maintain my stakes and more to move up. So when I get excited over a little win, I'm excited that I'm making progress, not because of the value of the win. I guess I never realized how few people thought the same way. I really thought there would be more good players that just aren't comfortable at larger stakes so they keep playing the micros.

I wouldn't really be interested in blocking my own stats, because I've become a little obsessive about checking them now that I'm putting some volume on Merge and getting the occasional win. If I had any accolades I would go ahead and display them, because I like to use a little bit of truth to misguide my opponents. It's a habit I've picked up playing live since it's very easy for me to deceive the table as a young woman. Since I've started playing on PO and got to know some other female poker players, I have more respect for online female poker players. However, I have yet to play against another woman live that is any competition to me. My goal is eventually to play in the WSOP Ladies Event.

Instead of focusing on making it to the highest ranks of online play, I like to treat online poker as a training ground to become an excellent live player. My game has improved so much this last year and I'm really looking forward to my next trip to Vegas to see what I can do.
I would say you are certainly taking the right approach. I'm certainly no pro, but I trained with some. My main "problem" (if you could call it that) was that in order to justify all the time I spent playing, I needed to pull checks off. It got me a nice car, paid for my wedding and honeymoon and put some $$ in the bank at home, but it kept my bankroll from properly growing. If I was single, or had no family, I'd like to think I'd be in Canada or Costa Rica right now crushing dreams. Or maybe I'd be a hobo living behind 7-11, who knows. Eventually I was lucky enough to find backers, who provided the buy-ins which allowed me to play higher than my bankroll would allow but keep drawing the profits home to the wife and kids.

Every win is worth celebrating, by the way. I was just saying that by the time you start winning bigger games, ppl like us who started micro are kind of used to it.